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About
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SMPQ is StormLib MPQ archiving utility. This utility is designed for full
manipulating with Blizzard MPQ archives. It supports extracting, appending,
renaming and deleting files in MPQ archives. It also can create MPQ archive.
SMPQ can access to different type of MPQ archives and version. It support
encrypted, compressed, partial and patched MPQ archives with version 1-4.
SMPQ is free open source command line utility written in C/C++ which use
multiplatform C++ StormLib library.
Part of SMPQ is KDE4 KIO plugin which add support for all KDE4 applications
(e.g. Konqueror, Dolphin, Kate, ... and all KDE4 open/save dialogs) access to
MPQ archives like to directory or network drive (or FTP). This is simple way
how to integrate MPQ support on KDE4 desktop (There is no need to use some MPQ
viewer/editor. All KDE4 application can open MPQ archives in read/write mode).
Author: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Version: 1.6
License: GNU GPL v3
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/smpq
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How to build
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Dependencies for SMPQ:
* ANSI C90 compiler (gcc works fine)
* StormLib (minimal version 9.20) from http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html#StormLib
* CMake (minimal version 2.6) from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
Additional dependencies for KDE4 KIO plugin:
* C++ 98 compiler (g++ works fine)
* KDE4 libs headers (part of kdelibs package) from http://www.kde.org/download/
Additional dependencies for Windows NSIS Installer:
* NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
* UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Building on Debian/*buntu and Debian like Linux distributions:
$ sudo apt-get install fakeroot debhelper cmake libstorm-dev libstorm-listfiles kdelibs5-dev
$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot
$ sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb
Ubuntu packages are built in SMPQ PPA on https://launchpad.net/~pali/+archive/smpq
Building on other *nix:
Commands to build only SMPQ command line utility (without KDE4 KIO plugin):
$ rm -rf build && mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake -DWITH_KDE=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Commands to build SMPQ with KDE4 KIO plugin:
$ rm -rf build && mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Commands to build only KDE4 KIO plugin:
$ rm -rf build && mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake -DWITH_CMD=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Building on Windows:
Commands to build only SMPQ command line utility:
Download and unpack SMPQ to C:\smpq. Open command line in folder C:\smpq
C:\smpq> del /r /q build && md build && cd build
C:\smpq\build> cmake -DWITH_KDE=OFF ..
C:\smpq\build> make
This will build executable C:\smpq\build\smpq.exe
Commands to build SMPQ command line utility into Windows NSIS Installer:
Download and unpack SMPQ to C:\smpq. Open command line in folder C:\smpq
C:\smpq> del /r /q build && md build && cd build
C:\smpq\build> cmake -DWITH_KDE=OFF -DWITH_NSIS=ON ..
C:\smpq\build> make
This will build installer executable C:\smpq\build\SMPQ-<VERSION>.exe
Note:
Sometimes after (re)installing KDE4 KIO plugin is needed to restart KDE4.
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How to use
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SMPQ command line utility:
For detailed info see
* user manpage: $ man 1 smpq
* runtime help: $ smpq --help
KDE4 KIO plugin:
Open Konqueror, Dolphin or other KDE4 file manager and simply open MPQ archive
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Changelog
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See file CHANGELOG
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Links
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SMPQ Homepage: https://launchpad.net/smpq
CMake homepage: http://www.cmake.org
KDE homepage: http://www.kde.org
NSIS homepage: http://nsis.sourceforge.net
UPX homepage: http://upx.sourceforge.net
StormLib library: http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/stormlib.html
MPQ documentation: http://wiki.devklog.net/index.php?title=The_MoPaQ_Archive_Format